Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-030-91274-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: Maritime Literature and Culture

This open access edited collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/ mobilities have been framed and articulated in the literary and cultural imagination. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility as they are articulated and problematized in selected literature and cultural forms from the early modern period to the present. In particular, it brings cultural mobility studies into conversation with the maritime and oceanic humanities. The contributors examine the interface between the traditional Eurocentric imagination of the sea as romantic and metaphorical, and the materiality of the sea as a deathbed for racialized and illegalized humans as well as non-human populations

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lavery, Charne

Ganser, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Maritime Im/mobilities.- 2. Storied Waves: Maritime Connections and Subaltern Knowledge in Arctic and Mediterranean Literary Contact Zones.- 3. Birds of the Plastic Pacific: Moving (the) Masses.- 4. Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives.- 5. Reading and Writing the Ship in “Benito Cereno” and “The Heroic Slave”.- 6. South Seas Speculation in Finance and Fiction.- 7. From HI-SEAS to Outer Space: Discourses of Water and Territory in U.S. Pacific Imperialism and Representations of U.S. Mars Colonization.- 8. Precarious Passages: On Migrant Maritime Mobilities, ca. 1907.- 9. High Sea and Sediment: Watermarks in Ilse Aichinger’s Work.- 10. “Ocean People”: Pacific (Im)Mobilities in the Chinese American Imaginary.- 11. Going Nowhere: Oceanic Im/Mobilities in North American Refugee Fiction.- 12. “Spoken nowhere but on the water”: Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Lost Languages of the Indian Ocean World

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra Ganser is Professor of North American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she also heads the interdisciplinary Research Platform “Mobile Cultures and Societies.”

Charne Lavery is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Research Fellow on the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project based at WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.